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genetics

Security searches at a Kuwaiti mosque, September 2016

Humans

Kuwait's mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy

The Gulf state will soon be the first nation to force all residents and visitors to hand over DNA, risking its reputation and more, warns geneticist Olaf Rieß

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evolution artwork

Life

Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory

Features

Humans

"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio

Comment

artist's impression of e coli covered in lots of pink hairs

Life

Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses

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life artwork

Life

Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth

Features

Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives

Life

Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives

Analysis

First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains

Health

First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains

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Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer

Health

Gene doping in sport could make the Olympics fairer and safer

Analysis

Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer

Health

Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer

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People around a campfire

Humans

Tolerance of smoke may have given us an edge over Neanderthals

Modern humans carry a mutation that allows us to deal with health effects of smoke inhalation – something our Neanderthal relatives seem to have lacked

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Life

Inbreeding has destroyed the English bulldog’s genetic diversity

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Earth

Red wolf may lose endangered status because it's just a hybrid

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Life

We're on the cusp of a gene editing revolution, are we ready?

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Health

CRISPR genome editing could save sight by tweaking DNA

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